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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1996  (10:51 AM EDT)

KSC Public Affairs Contact: Joel Wells
E-mail: J.Wells-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov


MISSION: STS-80 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY-3 (image) and ORFEUS-SPAS-2 (image)

VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: Vehicle Assembly Building
TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: No earlier than Nov. 8 at 2:47 p.m. EST
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Nov. 24 at 7:31 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 16 days
CREW: Cockrell, Rominger, Jernigan, Jones, Musgrave
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 219 statute miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE: Columbia’s rollover to the VAB was complete by 1:30 p.m.
yesterday.  Work to soft mate the orbiter to the external tank in
hi-bay 3 continues with a hard mate expected tonight. Umbilical
mating is planned for tomorrow.

KEY STS-80 OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
* Deliver vertical payloads to Pad 39B (first motion tonight)
* Roll-out to Pad 39B (Oct. 16)
* Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test  (Oct. 22 - 23)


MISSION: STS-81 -- 5th MIR DOCKING & SPACEHAB DM (image)

VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3
TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Jan. 12, 1997 at about 4:17 a.m. (EST)
LAUNCH WINDOW: 7-10 minutes
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Jan. 21, 1997 at about 8:40 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 9 days (+1)
CREW: Baker, Jett, Grunsfeld, Ivins, Wisoff, Linenger (up) Blaha (down)
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 184 statute miles/51.6 degrees

NOTE:  Work to remove APUs No. 1 and 3 is complete and reinstallation
is in work. Radiator inspection is complete and functional tests are
scheduled for next week. Orbital maneuvering system functional
checkout and the Shuttle’s main propulsion system helium system
checkout continues.  Preparations for fuel cell voltage tests are in
work.

	Joint close-outs continue on the mated left aft and left
forward center segments of STS-81’s SRB stack.  Booster stacking
operations will resume with the right hand SRB following the arrival
of the right aft segment in the VAB on Friday.

KEY STS-81 OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
* Remove Space Shuttle main engines (Oct. 24)
* Install Space Shuttle main engines (Nov. 5)


MISSION: STS-82 -- HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SERVICING MISSION-2

VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2
TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: February 13, 1997 at 2:59 a.m.
LAUNCH WINDOW: 61 minutes
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: February 23, 1997 at 1:35 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 22 hours
CREW: Bowersox, Horowitz, Lee, Hawley, Harbaugh, Smith, Tanner
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 360 statute miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE: Fuel cell and power reactant storage and distribution system
tests continue.  The interface verification test of the forward
reaction control system is complete. The main propulsion system
liquid oxygen leak checks and functional checkout continues.  Water
spray boiler leak and functional checkout continues.

KEY OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
* Install Space Shuttle main engines (Oct. 14)
* Install left-hand orbital maneuvering system pod (Oct. 21)
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